The United Kingdom Trade and Investment Office would establish a permanent branch in Phnom Penh in the expectation that economic ties between the two countries would continue to grow, Cambodian and UK officials said yesterday. Bilateral trade has risen by 300 per cent during the past <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/uk-to-open-investment-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Exports to the US grew 26 per cent in the first half of this year, despite tensions over the Kingdom’s July 29 national elections. This stands in stark contrast to last year when export growth to the US was in single digits. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exports-to-us-see-26-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sarorn Phi, 39, cautiously stops his moto 20 metres away from the large, signless boom gate blocking his path in Sesan district. He shuffles toward the security guard’s hut at the entrance to a sprawling Chinese rubber plantation and negotiates with the guard to enter <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rock-and-a-hard-place/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A cAsino complex on top of KAmpot province’s Bokor MountAin will open in less thAn two weeks &ndAsh; but environmentAl groups Are strAngely quiet About the effects the development, the size of A smAll city, could hAve on CAmbodiA’s nAturAl heritAge. The complex, in the PreAh <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/city-on-A-hill-spArks-little-tAlk/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Unusually high yields of salt production in Kep and Kampot province have surpassed the market’s low demand, filling the nation’s salt storage facilities to capacity, the head of a local industry body said yesterday.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hot-weather-shakes-up-local-salt-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia and China are looking into the logistics of creating a connection between the Bassac River and the sea in Kep province to provide a viable alternative for waterway passenger and freight traffic to enter the Kingdom without passing through Vietnam, according to the transport <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/study-on-bassac-river-kep-sea-waterway-link-finished/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cost of food in Cambodia increased 2.78 percent in December of 2021 over the same month in the previous year, according to the National Institute of Statistics of Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fao-says-world-food-prices-to-reach-record-high-in-march-cambodia-expects-3-5-percent-hike-in-q1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has called for aSEaN to establish a regional education and skills development framework tailored for the future labour force, with a particular focus on expanding access to technical and vocational education and training (TVET). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-urges-asean-to-expand-access-to-vocational-training/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The United Nations in Cambodia has taken a beating in recent months. The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has been plagued by high-profile resignations and accusations of political interference. Elsewhere human rights activists have criticised the UN’s failure to take a firm stance against an increasingly <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monitoring-for-nothing-is-the-ilos-better-factories-programme-failing-the-kingdoms-garment-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the countries aiming to achieve $6 billion in bilateral trade by 2020, China on Tuesday said Cambodia’s low sanitary and phytosanitary standards stand in the way of achieving their mutual trade goals, particularly when it comes to agricultural goods. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-says-low-sanitary-standards-in-cambodia-a-barrier-to-more-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mesco Gold, an associated company of India-based Mesco Steel, will sign an agreement with angkor Gold to mine the Phum Syrang prospect on one of its economic land concessions in Ratanakkiri province. “We’ve been exploring the area since 2006. We’ve been drilling holes and there’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mesco-angkor-to-mine-gold/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 100 CNRP Activists And supporters gAthered ThursdAy At Prey SAr prison to put pressure for the releAse of five opposition lAwmAkers And Another supporter who Are under detention. Policemen were seen guArding Around the Prey SAr prison to prevent the protesters from ApproAching the site, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/opposition-supporters-rAlly-At-prey-sAr-prison-to-Ask-for-the-releAse-of-five-lAwmAkers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia needed to invest in women to aid its development and integration into the aSEaN economic community, United Nations Under Secretary-General Noeleen Heyzer said yesterday. Heyzer, executive secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for asia and the Pacific(ESCaP), met with Minister of Women’s affairs Ing Kantha <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-invest-in-women/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Free Trade Union (FTU) President Chea Mony yesterday wrote to Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema, reiterating a request to set a date for talks over the construction of a statue honoring his assassinated brother, the late FTU leader Chea Vichea. Permission to build the statue was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-asks-governor-to-set-statue-discussion-dates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The economic fallout from garment worker protests and the industry’s response is expected to cost the key sector millions of dollars while tarnishing the country’s reputation among international buyers, interviews with suppliers and figures from previous periods of labour unrest show. Disputes over wages came to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factories-to-lose-millions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The two-day official state visit to the Kingdom, that started yesterday, by Vietnam’s new President Tran Dai Quang marks a new milestone for bilateral trade and investment between the two close neighbors that would also have a multiplier effect of attracting overseas capital into the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-milestone-for-cambodia-and-vietnam-bilateral-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia marks the 5th TVET National Day at Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre in Phnom Penh on June 15, according to a press release issued recently by the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-celebrates-5th-tvet-national-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As of November, the BAr AssociAtion of the Kingdom of CAmbodiA (BAKC) hAs provided legAl representAtion in neArly 5,000 cAses for poor people At the Phnom Penh municipAl And provinciAl courts, An increAse of neArly 30 per cent compAred to the sAme period lAst yeAr. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAkc-represents-poor-in-neArly-5000-cAses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

City Hall issued a statement on Wednesday dismissing information that civil registration certificates, including ID cards, would include fees after the national election in July and asked authorities to find and punish those who spread the false information. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-says-id-cards-are-free/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced in a statement on Saturday that 200,000 citizens have had their skills and employability boosted after receiving training through the technical vocational education and training policy since 2017. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tvet-boosts-employability-200000-benefit-hun-sen/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>